Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (PME)

The purpose of the PME department is to provide effective support in regard to information, decision and activities executed by the RWDO personnel. The PME department has playing a critical role increasing the effectiveness of RWDO’s programs and projects. It is the department responsible for facilitating the planning processes, tracking progress versus targets and assessing the effectiveness of activities. Although the PME department is not core in the sense of actually implementing development work at the field level, it is a vital support system to enable the core work to be done. PME is a department which requires a continuous feedback loop with planning activities being adjusted in response to interpretation of evaluation studies. The PME department is the central co-ordination point for all qualitative and quantitative program related data. The information is collected which allows to be used in an integrated manner, giving a view of the bigger picture. The information is reviewed monthly at responsible management levels.